Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has responded to a Moscow court’s refusal today to shorten his house arrest by organising what he called an ‘anti-crisis’ protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin, echoing language used against the financial crisis and subsequent austerity measures in southern Europe.
“Putin and his government have not been able to pull the country out of the crisis and they must go,” Navalny wrote on his blog today, having heard the results of the court’s ruling. He also posted images of the mass protests which gripped Moscow in 1991.
“I plead all muscovites and visitors to the capital to come …read more
Source: Newsweek
